Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-22
ONCE MORE FREE
Mrs. Kate Wheat ammelSberg Granted
Divorce.
DECISION RENDERED YESTERDAY.
The Trial Before Judge Matthews, in
Cincinnati.
some OF The EVIDENCE ADDUCED.

Thursdays Cincinnati Enquirer contain
cd the following particulars Of the divorce
case of Mrs. Kate Wheat Rammelsberg,
who has gained great fame on the operate
stage abroad as Mile. Rolla, and who is a
! daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. X. Wheat,
of this city:
Opening day in the Divorce Court.
That was yesterday. The divorce mill
grinds in Common Pleas Courtroom No.
/. Judge Matthews is the presiding elder.
The Judge was on the bench bright and
early yesterday morning. The ilorid-faced
crier was promptly at his place.
The seats inside the railing rapidly
filled up. Most of them were occupied
by females-Old and young, comely and
homely, stylish and lily dressed. A score
of attorneys sat about the counsel table.
There were five cases on the docket for the
day. Three of them, on the motion OF
counsel on one side or the other, passed.
Two cases were heard-one partially, the
other fully. One ofthe two was the case
of Kate w. Rammelsberg against Oscar
Rammelsberg. Everybody III Cincinnati
remembers when Oscar Rammelsberg was
one of the highest flyers that this city ever
produced, and how he married the beautiful
and accomplished daughter OF a wealthy
citizen of Wheeling, w. Va.
The plaintiff, Kate w. Rammelsberg,
was, before her marriage, Miss Kate Wheat,
sc NNhaa1inn Thay Npara D1nrrIan in 1R,t
One child, "A son, is the fruit of this union.
The petition for divorce was filed in De
cember of 1889, after ten years of married
life. The plaintiff and her son are both
abroad, she as an opera singer, he a a stu
dent. The defendant is still in Cincinnati,
the veriest shadow of his former social and
financial self. The petition charged gross
neglect OF duty. Neither plaintiff nor de-
PENDANT was in Court when the case was
called.
The defendant wasn't even represented
by counsel. The plaintiffs attorney pre-
secuted two witnesses IN his side of the
cause. One was George X. Wheat, OF
Wheeling, W. Va, the elderly, distinguish
e~d-looking, white haired, white w~hiskered,
gold specialized father of the plaintiff. The
other was a tall, broad shOuldered, stall
wart looking mulatto woman Of about
middle age, Kate Crawford by name, who
lived in Oscar Rammelsberg's family az q
domestic for about eighteen months, some
six years ago, and now resides in COying-
ton. The Crawford woman was first
called to the stand. She was asked:
what were Rammelsberg's habits when
you were employed in the lamily?'.
They were very bad"
"Be more specific. How we've they very
bad?"
"Well, he was intoxicated a great deal
of the time, and treated his wife cruelty
"How did he treat his wife cruelly?'
"He kept very bad hours, and would
frequently be away from home for a week
1T a time without his wife knowing where
he was"
How did his wife treat him?n
"As a wife should treat a husband.
| Whenever he was out late she sat up and
waited for him, and no matter what time
he came in she had a nice warm meal
ready for him."
The venerable father of the plaintiff was
then called. lie testified that he himself
had been the mainstay and support Of his
daughter and her son.
"Where is your daughter now"
Gust now she is in Kirchoff, Russia"
And where is her SOM"
He is at school in Rome"
That closed the testimony. The case was
taken under advisement."
A telegram was received in the city yes.
terday that a decree Of divorce had been
entered, and Mrs. Rammelsberg is once
more a free woman, which her many
friends in Wheeling will ne glad to hear.